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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 22h

We’ve had the Nudge Unit, is this the Tweak Unit?

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20's Plenty for Us @20splenty.bsky.social · 22h

Japan follows Spain, Wales, Greece and Norway in setting a national urban/village default of 30km/h. Road Safety professionals argue for nations to either set 30km/h as a national urban/village default or allow cities/administrations to set it themselves.

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Japan makes 30 km/h the default speed limit on most residential roads - as European city survey shows significant safety benefits

Japan has lowered the statutory speed limit on most of its residential streets from 60 km/h to 30 km/h, effective 1 September. The new limit applies automatically to roads narrower than 5.5…

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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It takes years of training to perfect this manoeuvre. #WorldBollardAssociation

An NYPD police car balances its rear wheel in a black bollard leaving the car stranded in the air.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Musician Marc Bolan finds the Jeepster for his love: a Bickerton folding bicycle Happy #BicycleBirthday, Marc! September 30 ((1947-1977)

Photo of a man wearing a leopard-print outfit riding a Bickerton folding bicycle with a surprised expression. He has a guitar strapped to his back.

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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Interesting, Andy. Have you tried 'em?

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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do you stock up on bike parts that you fear might go out of production? If so, what's in your bike prepping cache?

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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Does this imply more autumn mists & spectacular cloud inversions?

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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

looks like a children’s TV presenter

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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yes, I didn’t want to flaunt the fact.

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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Back when I wrote Lost Lanes North, the Yorkshire Sculpture Park was free to enter if you arrived by bike (or on foot or public transport). If you arrived by car, you had to pay a parking fee. Today, car parking is free, and all visitors pay the same entry fee.

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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Every nation is an “imagined community”, its definition forever up for grabs.

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Jacob Parakilas @jparakilas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Helpfully my two favorite facts fit into one screenshot: (1) The name means *exactly* what you think it means (2) They had to make a special place name sign out of solid rock because it kept getting stolen

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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

That’s an hour you could have spent writing a sonnet instead

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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

For a moment I thought this was heralding a backlash against indexed gears

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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There was another one with a frisbee. Equally terrifying.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"I began walking gingerly backwards." From the Cyclists Touring Club Gazette (UK) ca. 1920s or 1930s 🎨Reg Gammon

Linocut illustration featuring a person walking backwards while rolling a bicycle on a very narrow suspended footbridge.

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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Great ad! Which bike-related stuff defies the grim reaper? (I am writing a feature on this very subject so may well quote you)

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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Fair to say my kids love meeting a cleaning robot in the supermarket, but these delivery robots are a menace to visually impaired pedestrians www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZWU...

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Pavement Overload - Britain's pavements are not for sale (with subtitles)

YouTube video by LivingStreetsUK

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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Electrocution? Specifically while retrieving a frisbee from an electricity substation.

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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Cargo bike folk! I’m organising a cargo bike show & tell stall at our town’s autumn fair next month. Any suggestions on any great materials we might exhibit alongside actual bikes? Or where I might find some?

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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As it happens I’m writing a magazine feature on bike gear (incl clothing) that just lasts. Or that is backed by a good repair service or a range of spare parts. What are your top tips?

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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

New sock day! I don’t know any company that stands by their products like Darn Tough. Most lifetime warranties exclude ‘normal wear and tear’ but if you wear out these sock they’ll send a new pair, as I can confirm. Also insanely comfortable.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What's potentially even better than this amazing sweater and this amazing sweater photo, is that it may be a very pre-007 Roger Moore, who - more than one source claims - was known as "The Big Knit" for all the sweater modeling he did.

Advertising photo, possibly from a catalog, featuring a man wearing a turtleneck sweater with three bicycles and riders on it. The man is himself standing with a bicycle.

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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is exactly what’s being proposed for a site immediately east of Abergavenny station. 500 homes & mixed use. Monmouthshire Housing Assn. Some unanswered questions re walking & esp. cycling access. But vg for rail connections (and trunk road network A465/A40)

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders was part of a fun-loving bicycle gang as a teenager in Akron, Ohio, called the Road Spiders. As a tribute, Hynde later had a jacket made up referencing the gang, which she wore in the music video for the 1981 song Day After Day.

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Pretenders - Day After Day (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Pretenders

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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

First the bike industry, now Scotch whisky facing tough times. I’m doing my best to help both - but fear it may not be enough.

Financial Times article on the perilous state of the Scotch whisky industry, caused by over production and faltering demand

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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Fails on all sorts of modern accessibility standards but blimey, car-free Vieux Nice is stunning. What I’d give to live there for a year.

Steep stepped narrow car-free streets of old town Nice, lined with peach and apricot coloured buildings, green wooden shutters on the windows.

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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

If it weren’t for PBP this would be my summer ride. Not sure I have the time for both.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival Happy #BicycleBirthday, Alfred! August 13 (1899-1980)

Photo of a man in a suit and tie on a folding bicycle. His left arm is pointing outwards. There are boats behind him.

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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I can see it will work well as a trug in the garden. The Charleston lampshades are ceramic by Quentin Bell. On closer examination more inspired-by-colanders, than actual colanders. I can imagine them for sale in Hitchcock's!

Ceramic lampshade in Charleston farmhouse, East Sussex

Painted ceramic lampshade in Charleston farmhouse, East Sussex, with Aga range behind

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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Colander Girl ! Mine is 14 inches rim to rim. A real monster bought in the Abergavenny bric à brac market. Have you been to Charleston and seen them used as lampshades? So boho, dahling.

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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Bet neither of them is as big as mine. #ColanderWars.

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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I wish Wales had something like Scottish Water's excellent public drinking water refill stations - we really need it with all this hot weather www.scottishwater.co.uk/your-home/ca...

Scottish Water top up tap in action - a woman filling a bottle from a tap in a town centre

Scottish Water top up taps - there are more than 130 bright blue public drinking water taps across Scotland

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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Did you see the John Hegley poem that BBC Newsnight commissioned & just republished on their IG ? www.instagram.com/reel/Db7gFw3...

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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It's not for a new Lost Lanes book. Can't say more than that at this stage.

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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I’m set to do a long bike ride in the UK in early September. I bet it rains every single day. But happy to take one for the team.

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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I quite enjoyed it. A lot of experience between them and they had an easy rapport. Some good guests too.

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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Hoping tomorrow will see a northerly wind so we get a break from the smoke. Everything smells of campfire right now.

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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Heavy pall of smoke from a big wildfire drifting down the Usk Valley. Pretty bad air quality in Abergavenny but I imagine really unpleasant in and around Crickhowell. Been burning for a couple of days now.

Large pall of smoke drifting down the Usk Valley from a wildfire

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